Tuesday, 25 Feb 2025
Paint Your Own Pottery: Cereal Bowl Week
Paint a bowl for your morning staple or late-night snack. When you pick up your bowl after firing, we will throw in a single-serve cereal box to get you started.
Poetic Autoethnography of Place: A Guided Approach to Writing Your Own Nature Poem
In this workshop, practice reading and writing poems that celebrate our experiences in the natural places that make us who we are. Led by Katherine Richardson Bruna, Willie and Kathleen Robinson ISU 4U Promise Professor, School of Education.
Awards Reception: "Art-Music-Poetry" student art exhibit
The "Art-Music-Poetry" exhibit features student art and poetry. Awards will be announced at 6:15 p.m. Students were asked to submit a song that would be a good choice to listen to while viewing their art or reading their poetry, so each piece in the exhibit has a QR code linking to music to enhance the viewer's experience.
The Past, Present, and Sustainable Future of Our Infrastructural Networks
2025 Symposium on Sustainability Keynote Dr. Deb Chachra, PhD, is a distinguished materials scientist and professor at Olin College of Engineering. She specializes in biological materials and infrastructure, with a keen interest in engineering education. Dr. Chachra is the author of the book How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World (2023), which explores the intricate systems that underpin our daily lives.
Documentary screening and Q&A panel
As part of national Eating Disorders Week, Student Counseling Services will host a screening of the 34-minute documentary, "Behind the Before and After: Intuitive Eating and Body Image," followed by a Q&A panel.
Is There More to Mental Health? Let’s Discuss Flourishing, Suffering, and Spirituality
2025 Veritas Forum Dr. Warren Kinghorn, a psychiatrist from Duke University, believes that modern mental health has produced helpful medications and practices but that the benefits are limited by an overly individualistic and mechanistic view of what a person is. Using the alternate view of a person posited by Thomas Aquinas, a Christian thinker, Dr. Kinghorn suggests reframing how we think about mental health without discarding the...